International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, IEAS

Academician

Irina M. Artemieva

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Elected an Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) on 14 September 2017, Professor Irina M. Artemieva is a leading Russian-born Danish geophysicist whose research has significantly advanced understanding of the structure, composition, and long-term evolution of the Earth’s lithosphere. Born in Moscow on 4 August 1961, she received her B.S. and M.S. in Physics from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1984 and her Ph.D. in Geophysics from the Institute of Physics of the Earth, USSR Academy of Sciences, in 1987. Her early career at the same institute progressed from junior to senior research scientist, followed by an associate research professorship at Uppsala University in Sweden from 1999. After visiting appointments at the University of Strasbourg and the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, she joined the University of Copenhagen in 2005 as Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management. She currently serves concurrently as Distinguished Professor at the Deep-Earth Exploration Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and Chief Scientist of the Deep-Time Digital Earth Zhejiang International Research Center. Her academic distinctions include membership of Academia Europaea (2007) and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2014), as well as Fellowships of the Royal Astronomical Society (2000) and the Geological Society of America (2012). She received the European Geosciences Union Augustus Love Medal in 2021 and currently serves as President of the EGU Geodynamics Division.

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Professor Artemieva’s research centres on the thermal and compositional structure of the continental lithosphere and its evolution from the Archean to the present, integrating seismic tomography, gravity modelling, heat-flow analysis, and petrological constraints. She is internationally recognised for developing global databases and process-based models of lithospheric thermal thickness and age, advancing understanding of cratonic stability and the mechanisms underlying dynamic topography, and clarifying the roles of magmatic underplating and lower-crustal eclogitization in continental crust formation. Her 2011 monograph, The Lithosphere: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Cambridge University Press), provides a comprehensive synthesis of the field. She has authored 69 peer-reviewed publications, with an h-index of 23 and approximately 2,350 citations. Her research includes influential studies of the geodynamics and thermal structure of Anatolia, crustal density in the northwestern Iranian Plateau, coupled crust–mantle evolution in southern Africa, thermochemical heterogeneity of the European–North Atlantic upper mantle, and global patterns of crustal structure and evolution, collectively contributing to the advancement of solid-Earth geophysics and geodynamics.